[ti:From The Bottle To The Bottom (Live)] [ar:Dierks Bentley/The Travelin' McCourys] [al:The Life & Songs Of Kris Kristofferson (Live)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]From The Bottle To The Bottom (Live) - Dierks Bentley/The Travelin' McCourys [00:07.99]Written by:Kris Kristofferson [00:15.99]You ask me if I'm happy now [00:18.35]That's good as any joke I've heard [00:24.07]It seems since I've seen you last [00:25.96]I done forget the meaning of the words [00:32.03]If happiness is empty rooms [00:33.95]And drinking in the afternoon [00:35.97]Well I guess I'm as happy as a clam [00:40.08]But if it's got a thing to do [00:42.07]With smiling or forgetting you [00:44.05]Well I don't guess that I could say I am [00:47.95]Did you ever see a down and outer waking up alone [00:51.95]Without a blanket on to keep him from the dew [00:56.18]When the water from the weeds had soaked the papers [00:58.91]He'd been putting in his shoes to keep the ground from coming though [01:04.02]And his future feels as empty as the pockets in his pants [01:07.68]Because he's never seen a single dream come true [01:11.83]That's the way that I've been feeling since the day I started falling [01:15.51]From the bottle to the bottom stool by stool [01:20.30]Learning hard to live with losing you [01:33.56]You wonder if I'm better off [01:35.35]With freedom now to do the things I choose [01:41.22]We'll all my times my own and [01:42.93]I've got nothing left but sleeping time to lose [01:49.05]There's no one here to carry on [01:50.83]If I stay out the whole night long [01:53.06]Or give a tinkers damn if I don't call [01:56.92]I'm living like I wanted to [01:58.72]And doing things I want to do [02:00.88]And nothing means a thing to me at all [02:04.48]Did you ever see a down and outer waking up alone [02:08.18]Without a blanket on to keep him from the dew [02:12.50]When the water from the weeds had soaked the papers [02:15.23]He'd been putting in his shoes to keep the ground from coming though [02:20.33]And his future feels as empty as the pockets in his pants [02:23.92]Because he's never seen a single dream come true [02:28.07]That's the way that I've been feeling since the day I started falling [02:31.78]From the bottle to the bottom stool by stool [02:36.47]Learning hard to live with losing you